Wokół struktury gatunkowej "Księcia Wiśniowskiego" Janusza Samuela Twardowskiego

Abstract

In his epos Transakcja wojny chocimskiej which crowns the Old Polish epos inquiries, W. Potocki refers, among others to the writings of S. Twardowski — the writer who programmatically wanted to create a model of „native heroicum”. One of his attempts is the poem Xiążę Wiśniowiecki Janusz which is an earlier than Władysław IV realisation of a biographical poem. The poem on Wiśniowiecki stems from thy antique tradition as well as from the Polish epic patterns. It is also a carrier of interesting structural solutions, dynamic elements informative about the modifications occurring in chivalric epos (functionalisation of various genre schemes within the poem structure, experiments with the construction of the hero and with the sphere of narration). The dynamic elements identified in the discussed text herald the epic realisations with which — in a modernised form — can be found in the epic poetry of later times (e.g. Romantic poetical novels).